Dole introduces IBM blockchain in fruit and vegetable supply chains

Fruit giant Dole Food Company will launch a supply chain tracking system on the IBM blockchain by 2025 foragricultural products.

Agricultural Multinational CorporationDole announced plans to implement the blockchain in a report released this week. The world's largest distributor of fruits and vegetables plans to completely change the blockchain-based product tracking system. To increase the speed of solving problems with supply chains, the company tested the IBM Food Trust blockchain for several years.

“Blockchain reduces the average time requiredto study food safety — from weeks to several seconds", — the report says. “Products registered on the blockchain can be instantly tracked throughout the supply chain, giving retailers and consumers confidence in product quality in the event of a recall.”

Distributed data can speed upinvestigation of product problems. The company will also use this data to inform consumers. The company plans to make the supply chain as transparent as possible for customers and show them the "product path from the farm to the store shelf."

According to the report, Dole is already introducing similarsolutions within the supply chains of salads and fresh vegetables, and began to provide detailed data on such products to retail customers last year. However, the company has built security features into its platform so that various retailers cannot see the data of their competitors. Now Dole intends to launch systems on the blockchain for other products in the near future.

Apparently, Dole plans to continueworking with the IBM Food Trust to demonstrate the potential of the blockchain and “change food safety for the better.” The company plans to introduce a blockchain to track supply chains for all business areas: tropical fruits, agricultural vegetables and other products by 2025.

The IBM Food Trust blockchain is used by many largesupply chain tracking companies. Earlier this month, it became known that the Nestlé and the Rainforest Alliance are using the IBM blockchain to track coffee supplies. In addition, in early March, Ecuadorian dairy producer El Ordeño announced the introduction of a blockchain system for tracking food supply chains as part of the IBM Food Trust pilot program.

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